In the words of Beck, "today has been a fucked up day". First off, I go to get money out of the bank and after I take 30 bucks out I'm left with the realization that I only have a buck left after that. And then, and this is a big and then, just about 15 minutes ago Eric informs us that he won't be back from school until 8:15 tomorrow and we need to ( Read more... )

Hey....I need a big favor of anyone who reads this. If you or someone you know wants to see the Mars Volta on May 15 at the State Theatre in Detroit for $25 either e-mail me or call me at (248)-345-4726. I bought a floor ticket to the show when Colin decided to tell me that we're playing a show that very night. So I kinda need the money so I can ( Read more... )

My weekend you ask? Well, it was great of course. I spent some time with Michelle. We watched Back to the Future 3 on Saturday night and then we wen to Wendy's and Meijer the next morning. Fantastic as usual. Today on the other hand ended up being pretty kick ass. I first downloaded the free version of ProTools. Then I found a very kick ass free ( Read more... )

Before I delve into some awesome shit, let me just say that Lou Barlow and his wife Kath just had their first baby girl on January 27. Congrats!!! Anywho, Lou also just recently hung out with former Sebadoh member Eric Gaffney and they talked about re-issuing all of the old Sebadoh records!!! As some of you know, Eric and Lou haven't talked to each ( Read more... )

We started working on a totally brand new song today. It has that indie/(dare I say it)emo-ish vibe to it like Colin's other new one that we've been playing alot at shows lately. Eric, Colin, and I were the only ones there so we're gonna work on it with Nick tonight after the fantastic dance thingy dingy that Michelle is taking me to. By the way, ( Read more... )

I just tried to fix one of my pedals today. It's a DOD Envelope Filter and the nut that holds the output insertion has been missing for God knows how long. So I decided to steal a nut from a Boss Hold/Repeat pedal that my brother gave me, which isn't a big deal because that pedal needs an outdated type of power supply for it to work. Anywho, after ( Read more... )

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're SOOOOOOOOOO funny Michelle!!! I love the punchline of your little joke where you actually say that Maroon 5 makes excellent music. The true fact of the matter is that they really don't play very good music at all. In fact, it's very true that if Mars Volta were to individually compete against all of the members of Maroon 5 ( Read more... )

Last night I had a realization. I now understand that all these years I have been listening to terrible music. Sonic Youth, Mars Volta, who has heard of any of these bands????? No one that know anything about music-that's who!! I'm now only going to listen to the TRULY GOOD bands such as Maroon 5 and other bands that make excellent music ( Read more... )

Hey everybody. I finally got off my lazy ass and made one of them there live journal thingy dingys. My day you ask? Well as usual it was boring as hell. It started off with going to class to realize that I don't even have the right book with me (way to go me). After that I got home to eat and wash my disgustingly huge amount of clothes. Wait, I ( Read more... )